Hello fellow #retrocomputing enthusiasts. Do I happen to be connected to anyone who knows about an #ibm #rs6k 43P-150? Mine is dead as a door nail. When booting I get "Unexpected Firmware Error: DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00200 at %SRR0: 00c194d8 %SRR1: 00083030" And the debug LCD reads E1DC. If […]

You won't find Heygate Estate, London, in architectural table books. It was a brutalist Utopia for more than 300 people. But it was not a “failed experiment”, it was made to fail. And it took me 15 years to get around publishing these photos. #photography #architecture #london#photography#architecture…]

Fruit for Christmas cake soaking, arts and crafts part (lining tin and making a nice paper tent around it to stop cake scorching) done, just need to mix the batter tomorrow early and bung in oven for half a day or so — 23cm cake that weighs about 2kg or so!

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Smash the patriarchy by reinforcing a tribal gender binary that pits women against men! <tired subtooting>

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/115628428593031933 I think I'm going to need to see some evidence this wasn't the intended outcome.

Watching Centrism hand it over to Fascism in France.... https://news.sky.com/story/jordan-bardella-meet-the-man-who-could-become-frances-next-president-13476320 #fascism #centrism #jordanbardella #politics #france

Advice for attending your next high school or college reunion: When you get there, ignore all those old people you see milling around. They're there for a senior citizen gathering that just happened to be scheduled at the same facility.

The extent to which the ideology of neoliberalism has broken British journalists' brains really helps explain why the country is peeling apart at the seams.

Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation

Everybody's always on how dystopian fiction now has to be moved to current affairs, but they always forget that the whole section on Law now has found a spot in Fantasy.

"They don't build them like they used to. Vintage furniture has more quality materials and better construction." Or... maybe the furniture that is still around and not in a landfill is higher quality. There were a lot of cheap disposable trends in the 70s and 80s and those items are all in […]

Some people really need to get a hobby that doesn't involved computer touching.

My wife just got a new business client recommended by a courier she was routinely pleasant to when the bank lost something she sent and he was assigned to it — made sure it was clear to his boss it was the bank's fault rather than blaming him. Be nice to people.

Sharing this again as today's news programmes seem yet again full of those pushing the obscene suggestion of us leaving the #ECHR

“…and we want to assure those dark forces: we hear you, you have our full attention, we’ve got your backs. You can count on us.”

Any Irish people who find the USian attitude to mass shootings weird should be able to recognise it in this country's reaction to "unimaginable" tragedies that seem to happen every few months without any possible explanation.

Right, ingredients and bowls for the next couple of years’ Christmas puddings ordered. I’m running a bit late for this year, but October was insane.

"We will introduce a fresh racist policy every day until racism is defeated"

Err, I'm sorry, WTAF America?!? The enablement of monsters like Epstein in a country that legally allows stuff like this is less and less surprising 😳 https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/115545886393857022

mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115507575953865208 A lot of the same conceptual problems in IE, partly because of the shared media.

Any time you hear people make a dismissive reference to "DEI," take a moment to reflect on what that says about their character and values. Apparently they're opposed to the very idea of diversity (vs. homogeneity) or equity or inclusion. (Or else they just mean "I'm a racist bigot.")

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

This imagined defense by Cheney ("What I Got Right About the Iraq War") from The Onion in 2023 ought to run as a sidebar to every obit that's published this week: https://theonion.com/what-i-got-right-about-the-iraq-war-1850249194/

Jesus fucking christ people, companies are not your fucking friends.

Anyone know a good reference for what travellers' accommodations looked like across the centuries? #ttrpg #history

Apparently one of the problems with the housing crisis is that journalists and politicians in Ireland have no idea what it costs to do *any* construction work of any sort. Or maybe "Gotcha!" stories of government spending what seem like perfectly reasonable amounts of money on projects* make […]

After some months of thinking about, and digesting the literature on, the use of AI in schools, I believe that we're not only overestimating the capabilities of LLMs but underestimating the essence of education. Here's the expanded version of my new Education Week essay […]

Apparently the Maynooth rail line is fucked this morning but you’d never know it from their online systems, which are showing everything nominal as the display in the station shows everything delayed and cancelled. Consistently useless at updates. #mastodaoine

I occasionally wonder how many of the Americans lecturing us all on how to deal with their fascists helped elect those fascists with their "it's just a coincidence we don't want to vote for the black lady" ideological purity bullshit?

You're not going to be seeing Dublin Bay from the Dart if the fucking line is washed away you fuckwit. https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2025/0915/1533439-east-coast-railway-line/

Sticking on a Lovecraft audiobook. Now less horrifying, less bleak and less fucking racist than the fucking new headlines. And the plot is more believable too.

[Fascism and rape headlines] When did “shocked” come to mean “entirely unsurprised by the laws of cause and effect operating”? “Stochastic terrorism” is not a new phrase, hasn’t been for decades now.

Here’s the thing: we do not concede *one inch* to the far right. Ever. Anywhere. They are not just another political player. They are a threat to everything our ancestors fought and died to protect. They are not to be appeased. They are to be stopped. Rip down the flags wherever you see them. 3/3

So when Yvette Cooper goes along with this pretence, boasts about all the flags she hangs in her garden shed (really? and, er, why?) and says “put them up anywhere”, she is, in effect, saying: “have the territory.” 2/3

Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because: 1. They alienate their own base. 2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct. The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.

I suppose it beats dating apps . https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2025/0831/1531006-fly-fishing/

Forgotten how fucking useless public transport in Dublin is on Sunday morning. Does the Maynooth train connect with the only Dart for half an hour? Like fuck it does: let’s hold the train to let the Dart pass and then put in on the most distant possible platform so they might be able to see the […]

Why in fuck are there so many dance studios in Ireland — some purpose built! — with no changing facilities? #ballet

An awful lot of authors need to spend ten minutes in a properly dark cave. No, your eyes will not adapt. There is no light. (Night vision won't help either and thermal imaging is limited because everything is pretty much the same temperature.)

If I hold up a banner that says, “Stop killing children, stop killing civilians,” and it doesn't mention any names, but you automatically take offence, it's probably because you support the killing of children and civilians

Boyne's friend, JK Rowling, who he has written he completely supports, is a good example of this. Rowling wanted a boycott of a department store after a woman and her daughter were approached by an employee they believed was trans in the lingerie section and asked if they needed help.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2025/0812/1528029-belfast-vigilante-group/ No, Babylon 5 wasn't a fucking instruction manual either.

I've never worked out what the far-right uses to justify its insane hatred of climate change mitigation. I understand it's mostly motivated by money from polluting industries but what is their "ideological" reason? (Other than "OWN THE LIBS")

“Spicy autocorrect means we won’t need public transport” is a hell of a take. The Irish billionaire attack on the Metrolink project proceeds.

Again, who the fuck do you mean by “us”?